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John Nost Sartorius (London 1759-1828)
Gimcrack with jockey up, wearing the colours of Richard Grosvenor, 1st Earl Grosvenor
Inscribed and signed 'Gimcrack, Sartorius pinxt' lower left
Oil on canvas
Canvas Size - 25 x 30 in
Framed Size - 32 x 37 in
Gimcrack (1760 – after 1777) was an English thoroughbred racehorse, a small gray Thoroughbred, standing at 14.2 hands (58 inches, 147 cm) and sired by Cripple, a son of the Godolphin Arabian; his dam, Miss Elliot, was by (Grisewood's) Partner.
Lady Sarah Lennox wrote of Gimcrack in a letter dated to 12 July 1765: Despite his small stature, Gimcrack was widely successful, winning 27 of his 36 races in a turf career spanning 7 seasons. His ownership changed hands a few times, being owned by Frederick St John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke before being resold to Sir Charles Bunbury, 6th Baronet, who owned Gimcrack from 1768 to 1769. He was resold again to Richard Grosvenor, 1st Earl Grosvenor, as Bunbury was unhappy with Gimcrack's racing performance later in his career.
Gimcrack won his last race in 1771, at age 11, and was retired to the Grosvenor stud. He sired the handy grey horse, Grey Robin, who defeated Pot-8-os. His bloodline was more notable though in U.S. horse racing than in Britain, via his son, Medley.
After his death, he was buried at Haughton Hall in Shifnal, Shropshire. A brick and stone pillar marks his grave to the west of the old walled garden.
Gimcrack is best known from the paintings of George Stubbs. The Gimcrack Club, in York was founded in 1766 in his honour, and the Gimcrack Stakes, also at York, is therefore also named after the horse
John Nost Sartorius was the son and pupil of the sporting painter Francis Sartorius (1734-1804), whose style is very similar to his own. A prolific painter of every aspect of the country life and rural sports, Sartorius has left us with an evocative record of the sporting life of the late Georgian era. Like his father (and, to a degree, his own son John Francis Sartorius) he was itinerant, and his paintings are to be find in very many country houses the length and breadth of England. He painted many sporting scenes for clients whom he met at the Newmarket races, and his clientele numbered many of the most famous aristocratic sportsmen of his age: Lords Derby, Foley, Kingston, the breeders and trainers Christopher Wilson and Sir Charles Bunbury, and grandest of all, The Prince of Wales. His paintings are as popular today as they were in his own lifetime.
Despite the exclusively rural content of his paintings, Sartorius lived for the greater part of his life in Soho: in 1787 John Nost Sartorius was living at 2, Spur Street, Leicester Square, where he was joined by his father. In the present painting, which dates from the artist's maturity, his technique had moved on from the more naif style of his father, and is considerably more refined than in his early works. Late in life when he moved to the then near-rural delights of Kennington, where he died in a house near the famous cricket ground, the Oval. Despite a life’s work of prodigious productivity, his estate was valued at only £20 when administration of his will was granted to his son John Francis Sartorius.
- Creator:John Nost Sartorius (1759 - 1828)
- Dimensions:Height: 32 in (81.28 cm)Width: 37 in (93.98 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Stoke, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU446313865532
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